Packers quarterback Jordan Love was pressured relentlessly by the Vikings\u2019 defense in Sunday\u2019s 39-22 loss, and Matt LaFleur said after watching the film that the pass protection needed to be a lot better.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw some of the things we have to clean up,\u201d LaFleur said. \u201cWhat\u2019s disappointing is, we had a few protection busts that should not and cannot happen. We knew that was the challenge going in. They were gonna give some tough looks. That\u2019s the toughest test you\u2019re going to face Week 1, to play that defense in that environment. I thought there was some really good stuff, but when your quarterback gets hit 15 times, that\u2019s too many times. There are some things we could do schematically that we\u2019ve got to do a better job with and there are some things we have to go out and execute. But we have to have everybody on the same page if we want to give ourselves a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
LaFleur also noted that the Packers\u2019 passing game had several explosive plays when they took advantage of the Vikings\u2019 blitzing. Love finished with 387 passing yards and an impressive average of 18.4 yards per completion, but ultimately the Vikings\u2019 defense got to Love too often.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had some great moments when we feasted on it, certainly, but at the end of the game when we needed to make plays, they did what they do,\u201d LaFleur said.<\/p>\n
What the Vikings do under defensive coordinator Brian Flores is relentlessly pressure the quarterback, and that happened a lot on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers quarterback Jordan Love was pressured relentlessly by the Vikings\u2019 defense in Sunday\u2019s 39-22 loss, and Matt LaFleur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-892775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}